Top 5 Useful Google Tools

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Now days Google is the most famous and favorite organization for us, am i right yeah i know i am right, Google is working very hard for its goal of providing universe information, to make it easy for us what we want, it's like the Google to take over the entire universe.

"Google Logo officially released on May 2010
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1. Google search

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Google search the most important and most visited site, Google Search (or Google Web Search) one of the the biggest search engines in the whole world. you know what The main purpose of Google web Search is to Search for text in public documents provided by web servers (in HTML, PDF, etc.), as other data, such as with Google Image Search. Google Search has at least 22 special features after the original word-search capability.These include synonyms, weather forecasts, time zones, stock quotes, maps, earthquake data, movie showtimes, airports, home listings, and sports scores. Google offered almost all langaugs and in India offered in: Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi.

2. G mail (e-mail from Google)

In 2004, a Google press release unveil that the organization wasn't happy with only web searches
Google wanted to open the biggest online service on the Internet world that is e-mail. Google declare it would allow a restricted number of people to test a e-mail app called G mail [source: Google].

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Fact about Gmail
The Gmail logo was designed the night before the site launched!

Benefits of G mail

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Lots of space over 10 GB of free storage. G mail offers 10 GB of free storage for your messages and attachments, and they're adding more space as fast as they can. Your storage use is based on the size of all of the messages and attachments in your mail, including those in Spam and Trash. You can check how much space you're using and your storage limit at the bottom of any G mail page. If you approach your storage limit, the quota indicator will change from green to red. If you go over your limit, incoming messages to your account will be returned to the sender. If you've hit your limit and need to clear space, you'll need to move messages to Trash and permanently delete them from there.[source: Google].
Spam free E-mail and messages, i mean less spam G mail keep unwanted messages out of your inbox. in a special folder called spams
You can access gmail from anywhere by your mobile yeah i am talking about Mobile access

Some prefer to keep things short and simple. Google purchased the online messaging service Jaiku in 2007. Jaiku is similar to Twitter -- it's a microblog application. Jaiku users build up networks of contacts. Then they can send and receive short messages using a cell phone, computer or other device connected to the Internet [source: Jaiku].

3. Google Checkout

Now days most of the times we shop online, but nobody wants to share their personal information like address, contact no., credit card details and bah blah blah....
If you want to purchase any product online you have to submit you information multiple times, so Google create a app called Google Checkout so merchants can take the advantage of universal checkout system

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All you need to do is create a google account if you have already one just enter some details like address, credit card etc.,
and you are ready for shopping with Google checkout, all you need to do is search the sites which supports Google checkout and search for Google checkout button then click on that button you have to enter your google checkout password if you are not login that's it nobody will ask your address or other details

"Google Checkout is free for consumers. Merchants must pay 2 percent plus 20 cents per sales transaction. But Google gives a discount to merchants who use Google Ad Words. For every dollar a merchant spends in Ad Words advertising per month, Google will process $10 of sales without charge" [source: Google Checkout].

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4. Google Docs

Google Docs is a free web-based office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. It also was a storage service but has since been replaced by Google Drive It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of Spreadsheets with a presentation program incorporating technology designed by Tonic Systems. Data storage of files up to 1 GB total in size was introduced on January 13, 2010, but has since been increased to 10 GB, documents using Google Docs native formats do not count towards this quota.The largely anticipated cloud storage feature by Google is said to be replacing most of Docs' features in 2012. This extension and replacement of Google Docs called Google Drive was opened to the public on April 24, 2012. [source: Wikipedia].

To make Google Docs Better Google bought the following companies:

Upstartle, which designed the word processor Writely
XL2Web, creator of an online spreadsheet application called 2Web Technologies
Tonic Systems, the company responsible for the presentation application

5. Google Maps

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Google revealed its online map feature in 2005, Google maps deigned to search places all over the earth, you can get directions from one place to another, it will show how much time you journey takes, show you the shortest distance, you can check it by car, bus, train etc..,
The Google Maps feature relies on digital map images from NAVTEQ.

You can search palces, restaurants, clubs, hospitals, hotels and much more
Simply by Google maps you can go anywhere very easily